Microsoft Releases First Batch of Updates for Vista
Microsoft has made the first batch of updates for Vista available via the built-in Windows Update client. If you don't see the 22 updates, manually "Check for updates".
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30.1.2007 The Problem with Creative and Windows Vista
Don't get me wrong, they make great hardware, but Creative is not known for their efficiency in writing drivers for their hardware. Their Beta 1 drivers are relatively buggy compared to other Beta 1 drivers on the market for Graphics Cards, Network Cards etc, but with a big enough target market and enough technical staff I see no reason why they can't keep up.
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2.7.2006 Want To Upgrade Vista Without Visiting The Store? No Problem
Microsoft testers are getting an early look at new functionality designed to allow users to upgrade to more powerful and, presumably, more expensive versions of Vista.
Microsoft is testing a new Windows upgrade mechanism, known as Windows Anytime Upgrade. A first iteration of the technology is integrated into the February CTP (Community Technology Preview) releases of Vista that went to testers starting the week of Feb. 20.
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7.3.2006 Do you have problem with concentration?
The Problem with Bundling
On Friday I spoke with two product executives from a major OEM about some forthcoming new PCs and notebooks. During the conversation, I asked about their Windows Media Center strategy. The OEM no longer has one, and Vista integration is the reason.
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10.12.2007 The Problem With Netbooks
The market for netbooks is an artificial construct, a subset of notebooks that isn't a sustainably distinct category.
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5.3.2009 Microsoft Works on Comcast E-Mail Problem
Microsoft said Friday that some people who use its Hotmail and MSN e-mail services are not receiving e-mail sent from Comcast accounts and other Internet service providers.
Brooke Richardson, a group product manager with Microsoft's MSN online division, said the problem appears to be due to an increase in e-mail volumes, which it is attributed in part to the Sober Internet worm.
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5.12.2005 Microsoft: Bots a Big Problem for Windows
Malicious bots are becoming quite common, with six out of every ten computers scanned by the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool found to be infected, Microsoft said Monday. Altogether, the application has removed malicious bots from about 3.5 million PCs.
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13.6.2006 Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder overview
Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of Problem Steps Recorder.
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11.1.2009 How can Microsoft overcome Vistas lingering image problem?
Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, has a tough problem on his hands.
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2.5.2008 Workaround for HTC Hero Sync Problem in Windows 7
HTC latest masterpieces, HTC Hero, packs with the most coveted features in the modern mobile world, including powered by Google’s famous Android operating system.
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23.8.2009 Vista's Biggest Problem Remains Windows XP, Survey Says
Windows Vista biggest worry shouldn't be rival operating systems from Apple Inc. or Red Hat Inc., but competition from Microsoft's own Windows XP.
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15.11.2007 Vistas big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd...
Not anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent.
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17.6.2008 How to Install Vista Language Packs MUI on all versions of Vista + video tutorial
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, and Vista Business versions of the Microsoft licensing restrictions can only preserve a language!
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23.9.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Vista SP1 Is Out, XP SP3 Old News, the Pink Edition of Vista Is In
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18.
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27.3.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 Instant Change Vista Product ID with Vista ProductID Changer
In past we have reviewed number of application to recover product key like Product Key Finder, WinGuggle, Windows product Key Finder.
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1.11.2009 Vista SP1 RC1 Flies Past Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2
Despite the fact that Microsoft has expressed its official position regarding testing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 ahead of its finalization, there is simply too much of a hunger for the service pack.
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27.12.2007 Vista SP1 Won't Resolve the 4 GB RAM Limitation of 32-bit Windows Vista
32-bit Windows operating systems, and Windows Vista makes no exception whatsoever to this rule, are limited in terms of the amount of system memory that can be addressed to no more than 4 GB.
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4.1.2008 Vista Loader 2.1.3 - Windows Vista Activator 2008 Support SP1 with No Boot String
Vista Loader is one of the most successful Vista activation crack available to date, second only to physical modify (hardmod) the BIOS to include SLIC table to make BIOS Vista activation-compliant.
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15.5.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Microsoft to Kill the Grace Timer and OEM BIOS Windows Vista Cracks with Vista SP1
With the advent of Windows Vista, cracks also became available being designed to bypass the activation process of the operating system.
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4.12.2007 New Vista OEM Activation Hack - Vista Boot by gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog and to our forum members to clecha, Nighthief and fitterphil120 for most of the findings. One again the “Chinese” come up with a new method to trick out the Vista Activation. We have seen Softmode and VistaLoader, however “ Vista Boot by gkend” does promise even more.
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21.5.2007 Windows Vista on Super Nintendo, As Real As Vista on PSP
We're puzzled and confused... How can a console that's at least ten times less powerful than the acclaimed PSP cope with Windows Vista's requirements?
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15.8.2007 Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1 - Office 2007 benchmarking
Enough with benchmarking the OS - let’s see if Office 2007 is any faster on Vista SP1.
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26.2.2008 Microsoft Says Vista SP1 Needs to Speak the Same Language as Vista RTM
Microsoft says that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 needs to speak the same language as the RTM version of the latest Windows client. Otherwise there's no game.
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2.4.2008 Vista SP1 to Cure the Vista RTM Wow Hangover
When Windows Vista was unleashed in January 31, 2008, Microsoft was promising performance, security, innovation, all wrapped up under an umbrella of a Wow user experience.
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11.4.2008 Vista-For-Free coupon with Vista ready PC's
Microsoft and the world's leading PC vendors have reached an agreement to promote the long-awaited Vista OS by offering PC buyers worldwide a free upgrade coupon, as a way of encouraging them to buy a Vista-capable PC as early as possible, according to market sources, citing information leaked from Taiwan-based PC makers.
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11.10.2006 Can Vista SP1 help polish Vista’s tarnished image?
Call it complaining. Call it whining. The end result is the same: Windows Vista’s image is tarnished. And it’s corroding more and more rapidly as the weeks are going on. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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21.8.2007Fix for Vista Automatic Updates to Ship Via Automatic Updates
A curious problem cropped up last month: Windows Vista users reported that the program that manages their Windows services (SVCHOST) would crash after
having downloaded and installed a batch of updates.
Microsoft recently issued a
manual fix for this problem, though users who don't
want to have to learn the equivalent of heart surgery should soon be able to download a patch for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service
(BITS)...assuming it works.
"I'm running Vista Ultimate 32-bit," related one user
to one of Microsoft's support forums last month, "and every time I enable the BITS service, it crashes
svchost.exe and causes Windows Aero to go all funky (looks like Windows Classic style in some aspects)."
While support personnel
were able to provide this user with a working solution, Microsoft soon afterward published another set of manual fixes to the BITS problem. But what
was highly unusual about that fix was that, in order for it to work, the symptoms of that problem (SVCHOST crashing) should not have manifest
themselves yet.
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30.08.2007Microsoft Releases First Batch of Updates for Vista
Microsoft has made the first
batch of updates for Vista
available via the built-in
Windows Update client. If you
don't see the 22 updates,
manually "Check for
updates".
Here's
the breakdown:
- 5
Updates for both 32bit and
64bit flavours of Vista
(KB930857), (KB928089),
(KB929427), (KB931573) &
(KB929735)
- 15 Language
Packs (Chinese Hong Kong,
Chine Simplified, Danish,
Dutch, Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish,
Swedish)
- 2 Ultimate
Extras (BitLocker and EFS
enhancements & Hold Em Poker
Game)
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30.01.2007CheckPoint issues fix for ZoneAlarm problem after DNS patch
BetaNews has confirmed through testing that CheckPoint's latest build of ZoneAlarm, issued yesterday in response to a problem arising from a
Microsoft patch to a major DNS security problem, fixes a major problem with Internet access...
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11.07.2008Gaming Performance: Windows Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3
Even as Microsoft tries to shove Windows Vista down the collective and unwilling throat of computer users worldwide, the company is still perfecting
the well-aged and well-loved Windows XP. The latter of the two operating systems just received its third (and evidently last) service pack.
<...> Of course, with the release of a new service pack comes a huge, pressing question: How does it compare to Windows Vista and its own
recent update, Service Pack 1, in the game performance department? Vista, of course, has been plagued by criticism that games run on it don't perform
as well as they do in Windows XP, even though most of the problems were due to early graphics drivers and have gradually been worked out.
Come with us as we install XP SP3 and take it for a test drive, and more importantly compare it to Vista SP1 with a batch of performance
tests. Though DirectX 10 is Vista-only, many a gamer has sworn not to upgrade; will XP SP3 cement their decision, or has Vista and its drivers matured
enough to change a few minds?
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12.05.2008More on the Vista Service Pack 1 drivers roadblock
Long Zheng: It appears the roadblock preventing
Windows Vista Service Pack
1 from being made publically available when it was released to manufacturing two days ago is a deja vu of the same but less severe problem that
also happened in 2004 with Windows XP Service Pack 2.
The problem
then affected a very particular ATI graphics driver and Dell Bluetooth driver which resulted in loss functionality after installing XP SP2.
The problem today affects an identifiable set of drivers which too results in loss functionality after installing Vista SP1. Both of
which will require driver updates prior to the service pack install.
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06.02.2008Free Antivirus Offered to
Vista Testers
With Windows Vista Beta 2
slated to become public
through a Customer Preview
Program in the coming weeks,
testers may find themselves
facing a major problem: many
antivirus suites don't yet
work with the new operating
system. Computer Associates is
aiming to remedy this issue by
offering free copies of eTrust
EZ for Vista...
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27.05.2006Why you can't have Vista SP1 yet: Microsoft fixing driver problem
Despite being released to manufacturing last week, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not being made available to all customers because Microsoft is
trying to resolve an issue in which hardware devices may stop functioning after SP1 is installed...
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12.02.2008More inside dirt coming in Vista suit?
Microsoft is huddling with hardware makers this week to prepare for the next Windows version, but the company's lawyers are still dealing with the
legal aftermath of Windows Vista's 2007 launch. A federal judge in Seattle could rule any day now on a series of pivotal issues in the class-action
lawsuit over Microsoft's "Windows Vista Capable" program.
One of those issues: Whether to unseal another big batch of
internal documents turned over by Microsoft in the case.
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05.11.2008Endless reboots force suspension of Vista SP1 updates
The reason it's called "beta testing" is to anticipate and isolate problems. But a big problem reported by some -- not all -- Vista SP1
testers is causing Microsoft to take a step back...
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20.02.2008How can Microsoft overcome Vistas lingering image problem?
Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, has a tough problem on his hands.
Microsoft and its
hardware/software partners have done a lot in the past 16 months to make Windows Vista a better operating system. With Service Pack (SP) 1, Microsoft
has addressed some of the performance and reliability problems that has made Vista the butt of so much bad press when it launched.
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02.05.2008Enable Aurora Bootscreen in Windows Vista
The original Vista Bootscreen is very similar to Windows 2000, and is very bland and boring (you know, with the little catepillar bar scrolling from
left-to-right). But did you know that Vista comes with a much better highly visual bootscreen? Did you know how easy it is to enable it? No?
Microsoft may not have enabled this by default because of potential hardware issues, but that doesnt make sense because the minimum video card
requirements to even run Vista should handle the new bootscreen without any problem. In either case, here is how to make Vista look that much cooler
with the "Aurora" bootscreen...
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03.11.2007How can Microsoft overcome Vista's lingering image problem?
Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management, has a tough problem on his hands. Microsoft and its hardware/software partners have
done a lot in the past 16 months to make Windows Vista a better operating system. With Service Pack (SP) 1, Microsoft has addressed some of the
performance and reliability problems that has made Vista the butt of so much bad press when it launched.
But convincing the PC-buying
public that
Vista isn’t their worst nightmare has proven challenging — especially as the result of continued press reports,
comments on blogs and in forums (almost always from anonymous users who may or may not have actually tried using Vista in the past month or two) and
clever ads, especially by Apple, which disparage Vista and anyone dumb enough to install it. Ask the average consumer on the street about Windows and
many will insist XP is less annoying, more stable and works just fine, thanks.
If you were Nash & Co., what would you do to try to turn the
public tide?
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02.05.2008Google Docs security hole may have exposed private documents
If you thought you made all your docs and presentations private in one batch, you might have received a little notice over the weekend.
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09.03.2009Dell's new approach to the Vista migration problem
According to at least one Dell official, despite recent debacles with SP1, the customer migration to Windows Vista continues undaunted. A new Dell
Client Migration Solution, unveiled this week, includes services and tools designed to ease the migration burden...
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29.03.2008MobileMe mail service goes down for the count again
A new batch of problems for the already plagued service seem to have started in the late morning for some, including intermittent timeouts and issues
accessing the accounts on desktop mail...
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12.08.2008No Quad Core Scaling in Crysis?
Last week, Electronic Arts released a single player demo for Crytek's long-awaited first person shooter, Crysis. Crysis pushes the edge of the
envelope in terms of graphics features, including insane levels of detail and DirectX 10 support.
However, we were curious about
CPU performance. Granted, this is a pre-release demo, and it's very possible that the final version will contain further optimizations. Still, we
wanted to check out how well the CPU performed. Crysis installs two batch files in its bin32 folder, one of which is a CPU benchmark. In this test,
your character runs around a village and blows lots of stuff upit's essentially a glorified physics test. Lots of debris and particles fly through
the air. The batch file runs this demo four times. The typical scenario is that the first result is low, while the last three are roughly the same.
We ran the Crysis CPU test on five different Intel CPUs, all of which run with a 1333MHz front-side-bus: the E6550, E6750, E6850,
QX6850, and the brand spanking new Core 2 Extreme QX9650. We ran the tests on our ASUS P5E3 system with DDR3-1333 memory. The OS used was Windows
Vista Home Premium.
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30.10.2007XP SP2 vs. Vista RTM vs. Vista SP1: Gaming benchmark
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Here are the benchmark results that many of you have been waiting for - a look at how well ten popular games work on XP SP2,
Vista RTM and Vista SP1.
Its been nearly a year since I took a look at the state of gaming under the Vista OS. The last time I
compared XP SP2 to Vista, I was disappointed with Microsofts new OS as a gaming platform because I could get far more bang for my bucks out of XP than
I could out of the new OS. Partly I put this down to immature drivers, but on the whole I was convinced that at the core of the problem was Vista.
So, is Vista worth bothering with as a gaming platform?
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28.02.2008Vista sucks - reality or perception?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Dwight Silverman asks an interesting question -
Does Vista suck, or is this just a
perception? Depending on who you talk to, Microsoft’s Vista problem has its root in
one of two versions of reality:
1. The operating system really does suck.
2. The perception is that the operating
system really does suck.
It seems that everyone has an opinion about Vista, from people who have used it extensively since the earliest
betas to those who’ve seen a friend use it, but most will agree on one point - that Vista has a problem. Either the operating system itself is
flawed or the way that people view the operating system is flawed.
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11.01.2008Microsoft Patches Vista OS
Build
Software giant fixes
graphics-rendering problem
found in current versions of
Windows...
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17.01.2006Group: Net Censorship Becoming a Problem
Amnesty International issued a
warning Wednesday saying
Internet freedoms were slowly
being curtailed, likening the
problem to a 'virus'
spreading throughout the
world...
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